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Press Release
November 19, 2024
Roche Canada expands global informatics hub in Ontario
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Invest Ontario supports more than $130M CAD investment in Mississauga to create up to 250 highly-skilled, technical jobs
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, November 19, 2024 – Invest Ontario is proud to partner with Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada) to support the establishment of a Global Informatics Hub in Mississauga, Ontario. Roche is a world-leader in diagnostics and pharmaceuticals with a passion for addressing real challenges faced by patients around the world. This investment of more than $130 million CAD over five years will create up to 250 new jobs in innovative areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, computational biology and data analytics.
Canada is an important part of the global Roche Group network. With this expansion, they will now be considered one of the top five Informatics technology hubs supporting the Roche global business.
These highly-skilled, technical jobs are part of the future of healthcare and medical research, and we are pleased to see that Ontario’s life science sector will be at the forefront. Together with our partners, this is one step towards our continued investment and commitment to the life sciences sector in Ontario, our local economy and in healthcare for all Canadians and patients around the world.
Brigitte Nolet
President and CEO, Roche Canada Pharma
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a multinational organization with a 93-year history in Canada. They currently employ nearly two thousand people at their offices across the country, and their ongoing investments support the entire healthcare value chain in Ontario from research through to commercialization.
This collaboration with Roche Canada affirms that Ontario is where medical breakthroughs happen. Ontario is the largest life sciences jurisdiction in Canada. Its businesses generate 59% of overall Canadian revenue and employ 52% of all of Canada’s life science’s personnel. Graduating more than 70,000 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) graduates annually, Ontario has one of the most highly skilled workforces in the world.
This investment by Roche is another testament to Ontario’s growing reputation as a global leader in the life sciences sector. Our government is pleased to support the growth of this Global Informatics Hub with a $3.5 million provincial investment that will create highly skilled, good-paying jobs and drive medical breakthroughs that will improve the lives of people throughout Ontario.
Hon. Doug Ford
Premier of Ontario
Over the last six years, Ontario has attracted over $5 billion in new investments in the life sciences sector, including significant contributions from leading biomanufacturing and life sciences giants. The life sciences sector is a key contributor to Ontario’s economy, employing more than 72,000 people in high-value jobs across 2,000 firms which is 44% of Canada’s total.
As one of the largest life sciences jurisdictions in North America, Ontario is a prime location for domestic and international biomanufacturers looking to invest and bring their innovative ideas from lab to market. The new jobs in Roche’s Global Informatics Hub are a welcome addition to our province’s growing life sciences ecosystem and represent a vote of confidence in our highly-skilled workforce and research environment. We look forward to seeing this partnership grow and bring economic growth and good-paying jobs to Mississauga.
Hon. Vic Fedeli
Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
The province recently launched Phase 2 of the sector strategy, Taking Life Sciences to the Next Level. This comprehensive strategy sets ambitious goals to advance R&D, strengthen biomanufacturing capacity, accelerate commercialization and cements Ontario as a leader in the next generation of life sciences technology.
This was Roche Canada’s first partnership with Invest Ontario and we are thrilled to champion Ontario’s talent together. Roche’s continued commitment signifies their confidence in Ontario’s life sciences ecosystem to contribute to a global business.
Jennifer Block
Invest Ontario Interim CEO
Subject to reaching a definitive agreement, the Invest Ontario Fund will support the investment with a $3.5 million CAD grant. This strategically important investment will ensure that the medical innovations of the future are always possible right here in Ontario.
For more information about Invest Ontario, please visit www.investontario.ca.
About Invest Ontario
Invest Ontario is the dedicated agency for investment attraction in the province. We serve as global businesses’ partner and one-window access to Ontario, providing expertise and tailored services throughout their investment journey. With a focus on the advanced manufacturing, life sciences and technology sectors, we are committed to securing strategic investments that create jobs, generate returns to the province and drive Ontario’s long-term economic growth and global competitiveness.
About Roche
At Roche Canada, patients and science are at the heart of everything we do. Our passion for science and our commitment to relentlessly pursuing the impossible for patients have made us one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, in-vitro diagnostics, and diabetes care management companies.
With our combined strength in diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, we’re driving healthcare forward, while ensuring we deliver meaningful benefits for patients and sustainable healthcare systems. We are committed to creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
And we’re adding our expertise in new areas, such as artificial intelligence, real world data collection and analysis and collaborating with many different sectors and industries.
Having the courage to reinvent ourselves and question the status quo is what patients and healthcare systems expect from Roche - and our commitment is as strong today as it was on the first day of our Canadian journey in 1931. Today, Roche Canada employs nearly two thousand people at its offices in Mississauga, Ontario, in Laval, Quebec, and across the country from coast to coast to coast.
For more information, please visit www.RocheCanada.com or follow Roche Canada on LinkedIn, or on X/Twitter @RocheCanada.
Media Contacts
Gabriella Siciliano
Director, Communications and Marketing, Invest Ontario
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